the backbone of the international movement, its bulwark and hope.
If the Russian Revolution has aroused the spirit of all countries by lending a powerful impetus to the international struggle for the social revolution, it is largely due to the services of Red Petrograd. Its example of inexhaustible heroism inspires the workers of all countries to an untiring struggle for its complete liberation and for the establishment of the World Socialist Federation of Soviet Republics.
Hence, the world proletariat considers Red Petrograd as one of its chief fortresses, and the hearts of the workers of all countries are throbbing with love and sympathy for the working masses of the Northern Commune.
Hence it is that on the Fifth Anniversary of the glorious October Revolution and on the day of the solemn opening of the Fourth Congress of the Communist International, the first thought of the delegates of this world congress of the workers turns to Red Petrograd, in whose hospitable walls we celebrate this world proletarian festival.
Undying glory to the heroic proletarians of Red Petrograd!
Long live the Petrograd workers, the pioneers of the Social Revolution and the paragon of the World Proletariat!
FROM VLADIVOSTOCK
Greetings from the Workers, Peasants, and Soldiers of Vladivostock.
COMRADES! From the shores of the Pacific Ocean, where the Red Soviet Flag flies, we send you our proletarian greetings. To-day, after four unhappy years of Japanese intervention and the excesses of the White Guards, the Soviet of Workers, Peasants and Red Soldiers delivered from its enemies, has reassembled in the city of Vladivostock. The innumerable sacrifices of the Russian workers have not been in vain. After a bloody struggle, the Red Army has won the last piece of Russian territory which has hitherto been in the power of the emissaries of the Japanese militarists. The people of Vladivostock greet their liberators with enthusiasm; with curses it has sped on their way the reactionaries in their cowardly flight. For the first time, a powerful Workers' and Peasants' Army has paraded the streets of the free city with their victorious banner. This triumphant procession has shown the power of the working class of Soviet Russia and of the whole world, a class united and invincible. The appearance of this orderly army in the city abandoned only a few hours previously by the interventionists, has given the workers the assurance that the time of trial is over. After the departure of the interventionists and the capture of Vladi-
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